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Originally posted by windword
reply to post by DelayedChristmas
I can't think of a single religion or set of mythologies that don't include goddesses, outside of the Abrahamic ones. And now we see that ancient Hebrews did honor a goddess and the Virgin Mary is a carry over of goddess worship for Christians. I don't know about Islam and goddesses.
Originally posted by godlover25
reply to post by DelayedChristmas
Cleave is English, Genesis was written in Hebrew,
Us symbolizes the Trinity and the Seven Spirits of the Most High,
Wisdom is the Spirit of God who is the Goddess of all Creation,
Why would you read the Bible only to mock its Author?
God bless
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by DelayedChristmas
There's something in the Talmud, I think, about the "Mother of Heaven" or the "Queen of Heaven".....not sure her title. God kept her from the sight of mankind so that they wouldn't blaspheme her.
I guess he's very protective and jealous of her reputation.
I'll see if I can find more on this.
Originally posted by DISRAELI
In the Old Testament, the feminine side is covered by the fact that Israel as a whole is understood to be the "wife" of her God, in prophets from Hosea to Ezekiel (and, I believe, in the Song of Solomon).
This continues into the New Testament with the church as the "bride of Christ".
Originally posted by DISRAELI
reply to post by DelayedChristmas
Yes, I agree that it's figurative.
I'm just observing that femininity is not brushed aside altogether. It has a place in the schema.
Originally posted by DelayedChristmas
Originally posted by abeverage
reply to post by DelayedChristmas
The questions where (are) rhetorical, no need to answer them.
Ok, but as I look over my response, it seems as if I am appealing to my own form of circular logic -_- sorry for the bad responses, it's kind of brain wrecking and I just stumbled upon this notion recently and was too lazy to really formulate things out.
Originally posted by DelayedChristmas
Originally posted by windword
reply to post by DelayedChristmas
There's something in the Talmud, I think, about the "Mother of Heaven" or the "Queen of Heaven".....not sure her title. God kept her from the sight of mankind so that they wouldn't blaspheme her.
I guess he's very protective and jealous of her reputation.
I'll see if I can find more on this.
Oh, I read online that the book of Jeremiah references twice the "Queen of Heaven," and both references have to do with Israel suffering for provoking God by not following the commandment to worship graven images. As you can tell by my previous posts, I think Asherah was blasphemous to the real Mother and Father did not appreciate this. What is your take?
biblia.com...
biblia.com...
And the angel of the presence spake to Moses according to the word of the Lord, saying:
Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days the Lord God finished all His works and all that He created, and kept Sabbath on the seventh day and hallowed it for all ages, and appointed it as a sign for all His works.
For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before him -the angels of the presence, and the angels of sanctification, and the angels [of the spirit of fire and the angels] of the spirit of the winds, and the angels of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the angels of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the angels of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer and of all the spirits of his creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth, (He created) the abysses and the darkness, eventide , and the light, dawn and day, which He hath prepared in the knowledge of his heart.
www.pseudepigrapha.com...
I think Mother stepped aside and did not let Herself be known as to not arise questions that the perspectives of the lower intellectual, typically blindly religious, men can not fathom.